Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: call device_del() if device_add_disk() fails | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:19:57 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2022-03-31 at 16:42 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: [...] > Also, I don't really understand why we don't have to call > put_device(&sdkp->disk_dev) at the end of sd_remove().
That's because the final put is done by the gendisk ->free_disk() function which is scsi_disk_free_disk(). Most of the gendisk functions we provide convert a gendisk to a scsi_disk (via the gendisk private_data), so the sdkp has to live as long as the gendisk.
James
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